‘Imminent risk’: Evacuation order issued due to Chilcotin River landslide

The Cariboo Regional District has issued an evacuation bid for 34 properties successful nan Chilcotin River area owed to a landslide.

The bid covers 7,269 hectares.

Everyone successful nan area must time off instantly and return disposable routes northbound to Highway 20 and eastbound into Williams Lake.

The landslide is located successful nan Farewell Canyon area, astir 30 kilometres upstream of nan Chilcotin’s confluence pinch nan Fraser River and astir 90 kilometres southwest of Williams Lake.

According to Cariboo Central Search and Rescue, 1 personification was wounded successful nan slide, but nan diligent was airlifted to nan infirmary successful Williams Lake.

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The Cariboo Regional District says nan stream is afloat blocked and location is an “imminent risk” of flooding owed to nan slide.

“We’re concerned astir anyone that is connected nan stream because nan stream is blocked,” Gerald Pinchbeck pinch nan Cariboo Regional District said.

“There is simply a precocious consequence of flash flooding. We are moving pinch RCMP and Tŝilhqot’in nationalist authorities rangers to coordinate notification to anyone connected nan stream and get them disconnected nan river.”